World in Focus

March 4, 2013

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A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo international airport in northern Syria on March 4, 2013. Syria is locked in a nearly two-year-old conflict in which the United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed.

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A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo international airport in northern Syria on March 4, 2013. Syria is locked in a nearly two-year-old conflict in which the United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed.